Tlokweng land raffle case deepens

Friday, July 04, 2014

Tlokweng residents challenging the Tlokweng Land Board’s use of a raffle system to allocate 285 plots in the village have raised doubts about the authenticity of a policy document the land authority says it relied on for the move.

The land board claims the policy document dates back to 2007 and allows any Motswana access to land wherever they are and regardless of their place of origin, thus justifying the raffle system.

Using the policy document, the land board raffled 285 plots at random to more than 20,000 applicants in 2012, without any reservation being made for Batlokwa.

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Tlokweng land raffle case deepens

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